GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1916, Page 5

GERMANY

CHEEKI {WHAT GERMANY WANTS. Amsterdam, Jan. IS. The Neue Zureher Zeitung states that the measures under consideration for meeting Germany's pogt-war financial liabilities include war indemnities, and for raw materials the whole yield of the Australian tin mines and the South African gold mines. It may take a decade or so. The surrender of accumulated stocks of indiarubber and copper might also be demanded.

PRUSSIAN DIEr, SOCIALISTS SPEAK OUT, Amsterdam, Jan. 18. In the Prussian Die», Herr von Heydebrand in the Budget debate said: "Our worst enemy is the man who, like America, wishes to prolong the war for another year. I should not like to be responsible for the blood that falls on the guilty." Herr Liebknecht caused a commotion by shouting;, ''The blood falls on you for withholding the truth from the people." Herr Hirsch, Socialist, recommended the re-establishment of Belgian independence.

GERMAN IMPORTS, NULLIFICATION OF BLOCKADE, BY NEUTRALS. London, Jan. 18. The Morning Post's Washington corrppondent publishes the latest statistics to prove how the blockade of Germany is nullified, by. the failure of the Foreign_ Office to grasp the situation. 'American exports of wheat sent to Germany in the first ten months of 1915 were 15,000 bushels, with 10,000,000 for the corresponding period of 1913; the exports to the Netherlands and Scandinavia rose from 19,000,000 bushels in 1913 to 50,000,000 bushels in 191.

Germany in 1913 took 6,000,000 bushels of maize direct, compared with 15,000 in 1915. Neutrals' importations increased from 14,750,000 bushels to 28,950,000 bushels. » There are similarly marked increases in bacon and other commodities. Germany's cotton imports were 1,700,000 'bales in 1913 as against 174,000 bales in 1915. Those of neutrals rose from 53,0,80 bales to 1,100,000 bales, "

THE KAISER'S ILLNESS. MORE TRAVELLERS' TALES. -J Received Jan. 19, 5.5 p.m. Rotterdam, Jan. 18. Travellers from Berlin state that 'though the public are officially informed 'that tho Kaiser has gone to the front, lie really travelled to southern Germany to undergo an operation, of which the character is being concealed.

"IT'S A LONG WAY!" A SCENE IN THE DIET. Received Jan. 19, 0.55 p.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 19. When the president of the Prussian Diet announced tlie capituhtion of Montenegro lie said: "I hope a second 'will goon follow, and that the last will have :to pay the hill." There was a storm of applause, and then a deputy interjected: "We are not there yet; it's a long long way to Tipperary." j